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posted by fyngyrz on Wednesday April 11 2018, @06:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the mark-down-mark-up dept.

The Washington Post has a retrospective on 14 years of Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry, not sorry:

From the moment the Facebook founder entered the public eye in 2003 for creating a Harvard student hot-or-not rating site, he's been apologizing. So we collected this abbreviated history of his public mea culpas.

See also:
Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn't Fixed Facebook.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Snotnose on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:10PM (5 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:10PM (#665515)

    I never made an account. At first because I didn't see the point, then because I didn't want them harvesting all my personal info. But due to their shadowing I'm 99% sure they have a pretty good dossier on me that's just as complete as one of their schmucks customers.

    Zuck the Fuck told Congress I can opt out. How? I don't have a FB account. How exactly do I opt out of something I never signed up for in the first place?

    Fuck FB and Zuck, I hope they both disappear within my lifetime.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:27PM (4 children)

    by looorg (578) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:27PM (#665526)

    From what I read about the hearing today this was one of the issues that wasn't raised, one among many others. I to assume there is a massive shadow-profile on me. I never had an account, I keep getting emails from them from idiots that gave FB access to their email-phonebook. Plus I'm sure people that I do know that do have FB sometimes have me in pictures and such. Plus it's fairly safe to assume that they can build a fairly good profile on you just based on your friends, if they are friends you are going to have things in common, be around the same age and social status and other markers. So they could know or assume quite a lot without me actually going there to verify it for them.

    This would be the question then wouldn't it. How do you opt out without announcing yourself in the first place. So you have to sign up, tie all their data together only to be able to opt out? One could argue that if you don't use FB why does it matter how much data they have on you? Clearly they share that with other companies and organizations on a daily basis so even if FB doesn't use the data to serve me pages other fuckers get my data as they trade it around like as if it was herpes at a swingersparty (or so I assume).

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:44PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:44PM (#665538)

      Nuke from orbit? That ought to work, assuming you get all the FB data centers at the same time.

      • (Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:52PM

        by looorg (578) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:52PM (#665541)

        Facebook is like a cockroach or a twinkie, that shit will survive everything.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:50PM

      by looorg (578) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:50PM (#665540)

      ... and when I said today I meant yesterday. Apparently during day 2 they did ask about Shadow profiles and Zuck claimed total ignorance and started to talk about other things that nobody apparently understood and we learned nothing really. Except that there are "shadow profiles" but they don't call them that and that they gather data on everyone or all the stuff they can find for security reasons. I guess everyone that hasn't signed up for FB yet is a potential security threat they have to keep in a special database. Until they do sign up at which case they transition from horrible luddite to most valued customer .. or merchandise ... or that is the moment in which you transition from known unknown to product?

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by HiThere on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:19AM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:19AM (#665677) Journal

      Did you read the article earlier about how he had been donating (bribing) over half the legislators that ended up on that committee?

      How strange that the questions were softball.

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